Shaun makes an excellent point often forgotten: LEGAL drugs, in our current CJS, are the #1 drug category for arrest. Alcohol - over 2M arrests, ALL illegal drugs around 1.3M
Here's DC, where arrests for marijuana have tripled.https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/11/marijuana-arrests-nearly-triple-dc-after-legalizat/ …
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Sounds like these are arrests specifically for public consumption, which I'm guessing used to be pretty low on the list of marijuana-related arrests. The disparity is still disturbing but I don't see the harm in acknowledging that arrests are down overall, even for ppl of color.
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